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Jesse Ausubel - The Census of Marine Life
The Census of Marine Life
Jesse Ausubel recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on December 5, 2013. He is one of the founders of the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year scientific initiative to determine the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean. He currently serves as the director and senior research associate at Rockefeller University’s Program for the Human Environment.
Laurence Madin
Alien Life of Inner Space
Laurence Madin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 12, 2013. Madin is the executive vice president, director of research, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Samuel Wasser
Conservation Canines: Tracking a Subtle Scent, a Dog May Help Save the Whales
Samuel Wasser recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 9, 2013. Dr. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, has developed non-invasive wildlife monitoring methods, including genetic, endocrine, and detection dog techniques.
John Delaney
When the Ocean Comes to Your Living Room
John Delaney recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 3, 2013. Delaney is a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, principal investigator and director of the Regional Scale Nodes Program, and the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks.
Over-Fertilization of Coastal Waters and Dead Zones
Coastal Conversations
In this episode, the speakers explore a problem common to both ocean coastal zones and the Great Lakes—over-fertilization by nutrients, plankton blooms, and dead zones.
Enhancing the Resilience of Coastal Communities
Coastal Conversations
In this episode, the speakers discuss how to enhance the resilience of coastal communities to threats such as sea level rise and natural disasters like floods and hurricanes.
Shirley Pomponi
Drugs from the Deep
Shirley Pomponi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2013. Sponge researcher and ocean explorer Dr. Shirley Pomponi is a senior research professor at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University.
Coastal Conversations: Great Lakes
Coastal Conversations
In this episode, we are focusing on the Great Lakes, where lake levels are are falling and may continue to fall as a result of climate change. Falling lake levels have many implications—economic and environmental.
Laurent Ballesta
The Gombessa Expedition: Extreme Dives to Study a Living Fossil
Laurent Ballesta recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 17, 2013. Diver and underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta is a pioneer in photographing marine life of the deep sea.
Michael Latz
Living Light in the Ocean Darkness
Michael Latz recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 11, 2013. Latz is the principal investigator at the Latz Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is also a senior lecturer.
Bruce Robison
Exploring the Deep Pacific: Dragonfish, Spookfish, and Other Unbelievable Animals
Bruce Robison recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 13, 2013. Robison is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
Larry Mayer
Ocean Mapping: Exploring the Secrets of the Deep
Larry Mayer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2013. Larry Mayer is a professor and the director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire.
Edith Widder
The Kraken Revealed: The Story Behind Finding the Giant Squid
Edith Widder recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 27, 2013. Widder is a deep-sea explorer, oceanographer, marine biologist, and co-founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association.
Coastal Communities and the Rising Sea: The Coming Collision
Coastal Conversations
This broadcast in the Aquarium's Coastal Conversations series features an interview with Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel and Doug Marcy, coastal hazards specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coastal Services Center in Charleston, South Carolina.
Coastal Conversations: The Current “Coastscape”
Coastal Conversations
In the first episode of Coastal Conversations, a monthly live web series, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel discusses with three National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experts the current state of affairs for coastal areas of the United States.